Mental Health in Historical Perspective – serie
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History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980
Inbunden, 2015
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative …
Psychiatry in Communist Europe
Inbunden, 2015
1355 kr
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This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay between politics, …
History of Self-Harm in Britain
A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
Inbunden, 2015
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work …
Migration and Mental Health
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2016
1130 kr
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The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is …
History of Self-Harm in Britain
A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
Häftad, 2015
232 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work …
History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980
Häftad, 2015
232 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative …
Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
Inbunden, 2018
322 kr
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This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting …
Migration and Mental Health
Past and Present
Häftad, 2018
962 kr
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The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is …
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay
Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds
Häftad, 2018
571 kr
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This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences of the lunatic asylum in the Bombay Presidency (1793-1921). The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore …
Preventing Mental Illness
Past, Present and Future
Av Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
767 kr
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This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and …
Why Talk About Madness?
Bringing History into the Conversation
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these histories? What can these tell us …
Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930
Inbunden, 2019
910 kr
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This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the …
Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930
Häftad, 2020
910 kr
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This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the …
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
In and Beyond the Asylum
Av Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby
Inbunden, 2019
322 kr
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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental …
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
In and Beyond the Asylum
Av Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby
Häftad, 2020
322 kr
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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental …
Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society
Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911
Av Stef Eastoe
Inbunden, 2020
906 kr
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This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its …
Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society
Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911
Av Stef Eastoe
Häftad, 2021
906 kr
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This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its …
Psycho-Politics between the World Wars
Psychiatry and Society in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Av David Freis
Inbunden, 2019
908 kr
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This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand, diagnose, and treat society at …
Psycho-Politics between the World Wars
Psychiatry and Society in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Av David Freis
Häftad, 2020
649 kr
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This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand, diagnose, and treat society at …
Psychologies in Revolution
Alexander Luria’s 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History
Inbunden, 2020
908 kr
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This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness was formed by cultural and …
Psychologies in Revolution
Alexander Luria’s 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History
Häftad, 2021
908 kr
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This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness was formed by cultural and …
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815
Commercialised Care for the Insane
Inbunden, 2020
1135 kr
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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of …
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815
Commercialised Care for the Insane
Häftad, 2021
1135 kr
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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of …
London and its Asylums, 1888-1914
Politics and Madness
Av Robert Ellis
Inbunden, 2020
1135 kr
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This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of …
London and its Asylums, 1888-1914
Politics and Madness
Av Robert Ellis
Häftad, 2021
1135 kr
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This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of …
From Melancholia to Depression
Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Av Åsa Jansson
Inbunden, 2020
571 kr
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This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric …
From Melancholia to Depression
Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Av Åsa Jansson
Häftad, 2021
571 kr
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This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric …
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe
Inbunden, 2020
571 kr
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This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental …
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe
Häftad, 2020
458 kr
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This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental …
Lobotomy Nation
The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark
Inbunden, 2021
1467 kr
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This book tells the story of one of medicine’s most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or psychosurgery became widely used in a number of countries, including Denmark, where the treatment had …
